ARTH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pueblo Revolt, Acoma Pueblo, Lightning
3 Apr 2016
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The meeting of cortes and moctezuma, oil on canvas, second half od 17th century. We talked about how you can draw a vertical line of the painting and you can separate the spanish and the aztecs. o o. Aztecs are represented as wearing feathered skirts, which comes a way to represent native. On the other hand, cortes" men are dressed in heavy armor and almost reminds us of knights from the middle ages. They also have horses which enabled them to move around quickly. This is no accident that he is on a horse in the foreground, this suggests they literally have horsepower the aztecs do not. This really represents this meeting as a nice and benevolent one. The audience of the painting is the spanish which would suggest that cortes was honorable, he made friendly overtures to the aztecs and that the ultimate conquest of spain was favorable.
